May 9th:

A thoughtful, well-written script with specific stories and examples of your St. Martin's experience.
This is a legacy that you and your classmates will have. A "teaser" of it will be shown at Graduation Breakfast and your teachers will get a copy. Next year's 8th grade will also see a portion of it!

A movie file of you delivering the message in your script - NOT reading your script!

A title slide for the final movie

If not done, sign in to Google Classroom and complete and turn in Assignment 016 Arduino RGB LED

May 2nd & 5th:

What colors did you combine to make the secondary colors of light & what are the secondary colors of light

Why did you need 3 resistors

What is the difference between analogWrite() and digitalWrite()

What is the path of the electric current through the RGB LED

Finish the RGB Color Activity: See April 28th.

Sign in to Google Classroom and complete and turn in Assignment 016 Arduino RGB LED

Do one or more the the Go Further activities from April 28th

April 28th:

Whole Class: What your RGB program should look like when done.

Sign in to Google Classroom and fix problems identified on Assignment 014 and add a comment that you have done so

Continue with the RGB Color Activity:

Program the Arduino - after you have completed and run your code, please comment it so that you (and others) will know what the code is doing. Save your program as YourName_RGB1

Add code to make the three secondary colors - make sure to add comments for the secondary colors of light and save the program

Take screenshots of your RGB program and save them into your folder as 8th-YourName-RGB1-1 and 8th-YourName-RGB1-2, if you need multiple screenshots OR 8th-YourName-RGB1, if you can fit all of the code in one screenshot.

Take a video of your running RGB program - try to start the video with the Red showing. Make sure that you can see the colors. If not redo the video until you can.

Go further with one of the following and save your program as YourName_RGB3. Use Color Picker to find RGB values for the colors you want to use.

Make your LED cycle through all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Create a blinking color theme. Have your LED blink colors that make you think of your favorite book, like the Hunger Games or Harry Potter OR your favorite song.

Create a theme of the ocean, or fire, or your favorite sports teams.

Look at what you’re wearing and create a color display that matches your outfit.

April 27th:

Whole Class: RGB Color Introduction

What are primary colors?

What are secondary colors and how do you make them?

Use the RGB Color Activity Guide to:

Build the circuit as shown - it would be helpful to you to use the jumper wire colors as shown

Program the Arduino - after you have completed and run your code, please comment it so that you (and others) will know what the code is doing. Save your program as YourName_RGB1

Add code to make the three secondary colors - make sure to add comments for the secondary colors of light and save the program

Take screenshots of your RGB program and save them into your folder as 8th-YourName-RGB1-1 and 8th-YourName-RGB1-2, if you need multiple screenshots OR 8th-YourName-RGB1, if you can fit all of the code in one screenshot.

Take a video of your running RGB program - try to start the video with the Red showing.

April 25th:

Cardboard Grad Cap pictures

April 4th:

Assignment 014 - Fix problems identified and add a comment that you have done so

If you did not need to complete Assignment 015 because you had previously done so, grab a keyboard cover and complete all of the following on TypingTest.com WITH a cover. You will need to select the proper test and 2 minutes for the time:

Aesop's Fables

Space Cowboys

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Enchanted Typewriter

Do you remember?

Open your blinkbug Arduino program on your computer and fix it so that it will compile and will blink an LED on and off with a 1 second delay

Wire an LED to the Arduino and make sure that your blinkbug program works

March 28th & 30th:

Assignment 014 - Fix problems identified and add a comment that you have done so.

Assignment 013 - Fix problems identified and add a comment that you have done so.

Assignment 011 - Fix problems identified and add comment(s) that you have done so. Make sure on your comment for this one that you say which task you fixed and include the link to your Google Site post. This is optional but can improve your grade and may result in candy or other prizes. :)

March 21st & 23rd:

Finish code comments and save a screenshot of your commented code into your folder as 8th-YourName-Blink

Take a video of your blinking lights project, if not previously complete - do NOT show faces of anyone, no vertical video, and introduce yourself on the video and say it is your blink project.

Sign in to Google Classroom and complete and turn in Assignment 014 - Arduino Blinking Lights. If previously turned in, check for comments from me and fix anything that needs to be fixed and add a comment to let me know you have done so.

Complete a Blinking Lights Challenge: Choose one from below OR make up one of your own and make sure to add comments to the code you add and to save your code as Blink2.

Blink the lights in Morse code for SOS (short-short-short long-long-long short-short-short) OR create Morse code for another word (use this for Morse code)

Add three or four lights, and make them light up in a row, like a marquee sign

Make the lights alternate like railroad crossing lights

Adjust the lights to blink at the same rate as your heartbeat

Save a screenshot of your code in your folder as 8th-YourName-Blink2

Take a video of your completed Blinking Lights Challenge project while it is running - do NOT show faces of anyone

Add to your Google Site post from Assignment 014:

A brief description of what you did for the challenge

Your commented code

Your video

March 14th:

Go to Google Classroom and finish and turn in Assignment 013 - PokéTech Reflection, if not done. 3 of you have not turned this in.

Complete Blinking Lights Activity:

Get ONE light to blink

Modify your code to make the light blink slower or faster

Add an additional light and make it blink

Add comments to your code so people know what it is doing

Take a video of your completed lights project while it is running - do NOT show faces of anyone and introduce yourself on your video

December 6th - 15th:

If you have finished and turned in task WP01, check for feedback from me and fix the problems. Don't forget to add a comment to the assignment that you have done so. This MUST be corrected before you receive credit for other tasks!

Continue working on PokéTech.
In honor of CS Ed Week, if you complete and turn in any of the CS Tutorials before Christmas break, you will earn double the XP. If you do any Scratch project tutorials, you should sign in and save them because they must be included on your Google Site post.

October 18th:

October 13th:

Rename Quarter 1 to PokéTech (both the title and the name of the page) - NOTE: You can't type the accent mark so if you want that copy it from here. The name of the page should be lower-case and should not have the accent.

Rename Quarter 2 to Ignition (both the title and the name of the page). Again, the name of the page should be lower-case.

Check for comments from me on previously completed work & fix the problems. NOTE: Assignment 002 will not be re-graded but the problems should be fixed on Assignment 006 or they will count against you again on Assignment 006. You can fix them in LibreOffice Writer before you upload to Google Drive or fix them after the upload.

You must add a comment to any assignment that you fix to let me know you fixed the problems or I will not re-grade anything.

Complete and turn in outstanding work

Grab a microphone and practice using Kazam. Things to remember:

Not recording? Open the Volume Control and make sure your microphone is in the Device List and make sure it is the one selected for Recording

Don't see a microphone in Devices on Volume Control? Keep microphone plugged in and Restart Machine (Activities/Quit/Restart) and then check again

Check for comments from me on previously completed work & fix the problems. You must add a comment to the assignment to let me know you fixed the problems or I will not re-grade anything. NOTE: Assignment 002 will not be re-graded but the problems should be fixed or they will count against you again on Assignment 006.

Complete and turn in outstanding work - Assignments 001-004 will count as MISSING after today and a progress report will be sent home.

September 20th & 22nd:

Finish your self-portrait in Pinta. When done, save final layered image and then do a File/Save As and change the type to PNG and save again - do NOT change the name of the file; just change the image format.

Middle School Free Dress Typing: LibreOffice Writer

Set margins to 1" - Under Format / Page

Select a plain font (Times New Roman, Arial, etc.)

Optionally, set line spacing - Under Format / Spacing.

Save this in your folder in Microsoft Office 2007-2013 format named as 8th-FirstName-FreeDress. You will get a warning message when you do this. Continue saving in this format.

Type the Middle School Free Dress Policy matching the format you were given.

When done or at the end of class, save this using the Save icon.

September 15th:

Continue work on your self-portrait in Pinta. When done, save final layered image and then do a File/Save As and change the type to PNG and save again - do NOT change the name of the file; just change the image format.

September 13th:

Save your self-portrait as 8th-YourName-Portrait in your folder (ask how to create this when you save!)

If you would like a template, you can download one here; make sure you save this in your folder or just copy & paste it into a new image in Pinta. Add a new layer to draw each of your features and then erase guidelines from the template which should be the bottom layer.

To save layers, save as .ORA file type.

September 8th:

Whole Class: Review what we are doing today

Warm up with Alpha Quick - 2 times only! Add your name & fastest time to the board.